Geary County Law enforcement authorities are investigating a reported carjacking early Monday morning. Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf indicates that shortly before 2:30 a.m. Junction City Police officers were dispatched to the intersection of 8th and Jefferson for a possible “carjacking”.
Upon arrival police found a female victim who had been beaten and her car stolen. Officers in Grandview Plaza located the vehicle and attempted to stop it and a chase ensued. Geary County Sheriff’s Deputies took over the chase and followed the car east bound on I-70. Wabaunsee County Deputies deployed “stop Sticks” flattening 2 tires, with the chase continuing into Shawnee county where the vehicle was spiked again flattening a third tire.
At about 407 a.m. the stolen vehicle stopped in the area of mile marker 347 on I-70 and two 17 year old juvenile suspects were taken into custody without incident. It was later determined these juveniles had escaped from a juvenile group home facility here in Junction city called, New Directions. As a result they were transported back to Junction City and booked into the North Central Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Facility on several charges which include aggravated escape from custody, aggravated battery, aggravated robbery, aggravated fleeing and eluding, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and a variety of traffic violations.
